Cameras / California / Palmdale
License plate readers in Palmdale, CA
Volunteers have documented 120 automated license plate readers inside Palmdale. That is the 23rd-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 0.6% of the statewide total. Its 1.1 readers per square mile spread across 106.1 square miles — thinner coverage than 68% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Walmart, Sam's Club, and The Home Depot.
Updated August 14, 2026.
120
readers documented
1.1
per square mile
23rd
of 329 indexed California cities
0.6%
of California’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety83 · 69%
- Other vendors37 · 31%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 12 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Walmart (24), Sam's Club (13), The Home Depot (4). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (6)
- Coverage area
- 106.1 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · California ALPR law
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